Example sentences of "[verb] that the time [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Haviland and Clark found that the time taken to understand the target sentence was significantly greater in the indirect antecedent condition ( 1016 milliseconds ) than in the direct antecedent condition ( 835 milliseconds ) .
2 This works fairly well , but many people will consider that the time has come to consider a more rigid mounting .
3 I hope that the Ministers will seriously consider that the time has come to tidy up that particular aspect of health and safety .
4 encourage movement in your opponent 's position by : summarizing the course of negotiations so far , suggesting that the time has come for mutual concessions suggesting a new position which represents a different point of departure for both parties linking two or more issues since ‘ it might help us get nearer a settlement ’ suggesting an adjournment indicating the exact area to which you want your opponent to pay attention
5 On April 13 the then Oil Minister , Rashid al Amiri , announced that the time needed to extinguish oil fires started by Iraq had recently been estimated to be seven months rather than 24 months [ see also p. 38119 ] .
6 Moreover , the President believed that the time had come to use the great power of the USA not only to end the war but to ensure , through a place at the Peace Conference , that he could bring about a " just peace " .
7 Even before the blazer , I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor .
8 Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge .
9 The major difference between these two forms is that CPM assumes that the time required to complete an activity can be predicted fairly accurately , and thus the costs involved can be quantified once the critical path has been identified , whereas PERT assumes that time has to be estimated in drawing up the critical path .
10 It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men .
11 and announce that the time has come
12 My Lords , I have long thought that the time had come to change the self-imposed judicial rule that forbade any reference to the legislative history of an enactment as an aid to its interpretation .
13 Table 7 , however , shows that the time required to give a no response was significantly greater when the size of memory sets excelled 3 items .
14 Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea .
15 In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him .
16 We must recognize that the time has come for a national crusade against pornography .
17 Mr. Lester submitted that the time has come to relax the rule to the extent which I have mentioned .
18 Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria .
19 It all stated when Jamie Spence 's regular Tour caddie decided that the time had come to marry his sweetheart .
20 When Largo Caballero resisted Communist pressure to dissolve the POUM and arrest its leaders , the Communists decided that the time had come to get rid of him .
21 Jacqui was on one end of a double-headed dildo when she decided that the time had come to turn Kattina in .
22 Bevin , impressed by Soviet intransigence during the foreign ministers ' conference at the end of 1947 , decided that the time had come for a more overt display of Western unity .
23 Miliutin either said or implied that the time had passed for half-measures like the Law on Free Agriculturalists of 1803 , the Baltic emancipation of 1816 – 19 and the Law on Obligated Peasants of 1842 .
24 Now I believe that the time has come for us to think again about the theological side , the theological er and I make this proposal consider the feasibility of a theological examination anti- semitism and the convenor is ready to accept it Thank you sir .
25 He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion .
26 She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry .
27 These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building .
28 However , Furness and District reluctantly concluded that the time had come for the introduction of an annual limit ; whilst Cardiff and District suggested that the question of re-insuring the compensation fund liability be reconsidered .
29 Forster and Olbrei found that there was a significant correlation ( .65 ) between the time taken to respond to a plausible sentence and its implausible equivalent , and hence concluded that the time taken to analyse a syntactic structure was approximately constant , and independent of semantic constraints .
30 Other countries have used systems of this kind with success and the Government have concluded that the time has come to ask for powers to adopt a system of early release on licence in this country .
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